Solo In 5 Minutes FLAT – WITHOUT Any Theory (3 Step Solo Technique)

my goal in this lesson is to teach you 
how to Solo in 5 minutes or less so we're   wasting time already but just be sure to 
stick around to the very end of the lesson   because I've got a free gift for you and your 
guitar that you're both going to love if you   already know some open chords that'll work out 
perfectly because we're going to be focusing   on one chord at a time cuz for example in 
much of rock and blues music we're really   soloing over one chord anyway so we're going 
to grab an open a chord which would be first   finger barred across the second fret on the D 
G and B strings and then you have the open a   but really just it's that mey lower part that 
we want to focus on so it's almost like an a   power chord there's a lot of great rock guitar 
jams that can groove on one chord you know like this so the first step into getting 
started soloing is we're going to find   the key so we have this open a chord to 
work with we're going to take the lowest   note in that chord which happens 
to be the open a string and that's   our root note so what we're going to do next is 
find the root note but starting on the D string   so we already have that open a note and what's 
great about that being an open string is that   we can drone it out while we're trying to find 
that root note on the D string so if we were to   start with like playing the open a chord and 
then open D first fret second fret there's   something it's not the same note but there's some 
release of tension there ooh there's more tension ah still tense aha we've now reached a note a 
point of release of that tension when we find   the root note which happens to be right here 
the seventh fret of the D string what's great   about this is it's a very basic form of ear 
training where you can kind of stumble through   some notes until you find something that just 
gives you that kind of like ha that like relief   right especially when you've built up a lot of 
tension by playing a lot of the wrong notes you know aha right so you feel that release of 
the tension so even if you've never done this   before you'll have an innate sense of knowing 
where that release happens and this is a great   way for you to find the keys to any song that 
you're listening to just by stumbling through   some notes until you find that point of release 
so now that we found the root note seventh fret   the D string we're now going to find this group 
of six notes it's essentially our soloing zone   so now that we have right here our root note 
these six notes are going to sort of surround   it so we're going to take our first finger 
we're going to go two Frets down right and   one string up that's going to be our starting 
point so the fifth fret of the a string play   that and then we play the seventh fret and then 
we play fifth fret seventh fret of the D string   seventh fret being our root note right and 
then fifth fret seventh fret on the G string   so those are our six notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 and this 
right here is our little sixth note soloing Zone   if you don't already know there are so many 
epic moments in Guitar History that happened   right here within these six notes and now that 
we have these six notes the next step is to get   creative with them obviously we want to play them 
in a way that's intentional and Musical and not   just mechanically walking up and down that's 
the last thing we want to do so we're going   to use techniques that we like to call Guitar 
Linguistics little things like slides [Music]   bands hammer on pull offs you know FBR all these 
little things to breathe life into these otherwise   static notes and with these techniques in mind 
what we can do now is think about our phrasing   so you know how we tend to have a certain rhythm 
with the way that we speak the same thing applies   to guitar playing so this will mean doing things 
like sustaining notes and leaving space one thing   that you really got to keep in mind though 
is that as guitar players we are notorious   for overplaying so to prevent yourself from doing 
that here's a tip think about a saxophone player   right saxophone players when they play the 
saxophone they can only play for as long as   they have breath this gives them an innate sense 
of pacing with their phrasing and whether they're   taking a short breath or a long breath you know 
you have this very humanlike communication with   the way that they deliver their music so what you 
can do is something similar is if you're going to   start a phrase to prevent yourself from just 
you know climbing up and down let's say those   six notes over and over again or just going on 
with like a run-on sentence that just never ends   right you can just take a deep breath and then 
while you exhale you can play your phrase [Music] like so right there that was the whole duration 
while I was slowly exhaling and then I'll take   another breath and then exhale [Music] again 
so naturally the phrasing sounds a bit more   intentional and it and it has like a better 
pacing to it so it's not like you're sitting   there and then just continuously playing without 
really finding a stopping point so it's a great   way to just kind of take a page out of the 
book of saxophone playing right and then just   apply this sort of breath technique and it's 
going to build this really like mature sense   pacing like I said right with the way that you 
handle and the way that you communicate your   phrases so all in all if we were to just groove on 
that open a chord and then throw in some notes in   that soloing Zone it can be something like this 
you [Music] know so now that I've show shown you   this quick three-step process to soloing let me 
drive the point home even further and show you   how you can find it using a different chord so 
let's take the open G chord for example that one   so step one let's find the key now in this case 
the lowest note is a Fred note it's the third fret   of the low E string so we don't have the luxury of 
the open string droning out but we can still use   our ears we can [Music] just really like Hammer 
that note into our ears so we can hear it right   and then like right now you can already tell none 
of these notes these are tense notes right ooh   there's some release right there fifth fret of 
the D string right there that happens to be a g   note so that is the root note right so now that 
we found the root note the next step is to find   those six notes right for our little soloing zone 
so take our first finger right two Frets down from   the root note one string up start there so third 
fret to fifth fret on the a string third fret to   fifth fret on D third fret to fifth fret on G 
and there's our six notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 and step   three we'll get creative with them right so if 
we were to just like play a g core like [Music] oh and here's a bonus tip so when you're working 
on your phrasing Within These six notes we have   our root note right now that root note functions 
as the perfect safety net for you to land on   let's say when you conclude a phrase so that way 
it's like if you build tension using these other   notes you can provide that release which makes 
you feel like you know you're more in control   of what you're doing when you're soloing and 
especially more in control of like kind of like   what your listeners are feeling when they hear 
you play is that you can purposefully use that   root note as kind of a safety net you can start 
a phrase with the root note or you can I mean I   would recommend at least ending the phrases on 
the root note so you can go [Music] like you   know as long as you bring it back home you're 
always going to sound right because as long as   you play the root note you know of whatever key 
you're playing or whatever chord you're playing   in it's just mathematically going to work out just 
remember to really milk those guitar linguistic   techniques because that's how you're going to be 
able to play those notes in the most expressive   and musical way so right there was a super quick 
crash course on how to start soloing using just   one chord and you happen to be in the perfect 
position to learn how to take this concept and   apply it over all the chords now remember that 
free gift I owe you now that you made it to the   end of the lesson well that's going to be the very 
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time and then it's going to show you a simple   formula on how you can solo over any of the keys 
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can play and it's lessons like these that can   show you how to dive right into soloing on guitar 
even without any music theory knowledge [Music]

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